US House committee subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton in Epstein probe
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The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and eight former top law enforcement officials.
The committee's actions showed how even with lawmakers away from Washington on a month-long break, interest in the Epstein files is still running high. Trump has denied prior knowledge of Epstein's crimes and claimed he cut off their relationship long ago, and he has repeatedly tried to move past the Justice Department's decision not to release a full accounting of the investigation. But lawmakers from both major political parties, and many in the Republican president's political base, have refused to let it go.
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and US financier Jeffrey Epstein are seen in a photo at Queen Elizabeth'ss log cabin at Balmoral. Photo: US District Court for the Southern District of New York/AFP
Since Epstein's 2019 death in a New York jail cell as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, conservative conspiracists have stoked theories about what information investigators gathered on Epstein – and who else could have been involved. Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee nodded to that line of questioning last month by initiating subpoenas for the Clintons, both Democrats, and demanding all communications between President Joe Biden's Democratic administration and the Justice Department regarding Epstein.
The committee is also demanding interviews under oath from former attorneys general spanning the last three presidential administrations: Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales. Lawmakers also subpoenaed former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller.
However, it was Democrats who sparked the move to subpoena the Justice Department for its files on Epstein. They were joined by some Republicans to successfully initiate the subpoena through a subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee.
A banner of Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump hangs in Grand Park during a protest against federal migration enforcement in downtown Los Angeles on. August 2. Photo: Reuters
'Democrats are focused on transparency and are pushing back against the corruption of Donald Trump,' Representative Robert Garcia, who is the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told reporters last month. 'What is Donald Trump hiding that he won't release the Epstein files?'
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